xria:Given that the Doctor recognized her immediately and there is now (historically) no place/time for her, I wonder if she might be added as a companion, and hence more of her story can be added as we go along.

/maybe the next week preview thing ruled it out somehow, but I always avoid watching those

While she wasn't explicitly mentioned (or seen that I saw) in the "next time" preview, that doesn't mean she won't tag along for an episode or two; similar to Captain Jack, or that young kid who had a thing for Rose and then tried to take future knowledge back to his own time before the Doctor got pissed and tossed him out.

Most likely however, we wont see her again, and be left to assume that she was taken care of between episodes.

Shan:xria: Given that the Doctor recognized her immediately and there is now (historically) no place/time for her, I wonder if she might be added as a companion, and hence more of her story can be added as we go along.

/maybe the next week preview thing ruled it out somehow, but I always avoid watching those

While she wasn't explicitly mentioned (or seen that I saw) in the "next time" preview, that doesn't mean she won't tag along for an episode or two; similar to Captain Jack, or that young kid who had a thing for Rose and then tried to take future knowledge back to his own time before the Doctor got pissed and tossed him out.

Most likely however, we wont see her again, and be left to assume that she was taken care of between episodes.

I thought she was going to stay in the 70s with her great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents.

Also, I liked last night's episode, despite the stupid wub is ebwyfing thread running through it. It was genuinely creepy and well-done, and Clara's development as clearly NOT the same blase "okay, I'm a time-traveling big dick now, check me out" Rose, Donna, and Amy became that I feared from her initial impressions. She really is, or at least acts like a normal, everyday girl, and part of that (or being a normal everyday person) is a vulnerability to seriously weird, life-threatening stuff making her nuts. Realizing you just saw the life of Earth pass by would freak out anyone normal. Facing an alien and seeing people die would freak out anyone normal. I kind of really like that she jumped in with the same carefree attitude that previous companions got but she's very reasonably getting weirded the fark out beyond the previous ones. I hope it actually becomes a character thread and isn't just a hiccup from this ep and last.

HopScotchNSoda:OniExpress: e Tardis actually speaking directly to her (something that she's never even done with the Doctor, not intentionally)

Sure she's done that with the Doctor. Both when she occupied Idris' body in "The Doctor's Wife", and again in "Let's Kill Hitler".

Well, I was specifically referring to The Doctor's Wife, as in that case she had been forcibly plunked into a body and there wasn't much of a way around it. Let's Kill Hitler doesn't count, because that was basically just a pre-recorded message; it was the equivalent of your phone giving a low battery message.

This is, to my knowledge, the first time the Tardis-as-a-Tardis has actually had a conversation with someone.

OniExpress:HopScotchNSoda: OniExpress: e Tardis actually speaking directly to her (something that she's never even done with the Doctor, not intentionally)

Sure she's done that with the Doctor. Both when she occupied Idris' body in "The Doctor's Wife", and again in "Let's Kill Hitler".

Well, I was specifically referring to The Doctor's Wife, as in that case she had been forcibly plunked into a body and there wasn't much of a way around it. Let's Kill Hitler doesn't count, because that was basically just a pre-recorded message; it was the equivalent of your phone giving a low battery message.

This is, to my knowledge, the first time the Tardis-as-a-Tardis has actually had a conversation with someone.

Perhaps, although such a conversation was implied (off camera) in "Let's Kill Hitler" between the TARDIS and Mels/River, and it was implied that was "the best" from whom she learned to fly the TARDIS (and to not leave the parking brake engaged) that she had previously mentioned in "Flesh & Stone".

The TARDIS and the Doctor were both similarly hinky about Jack after he gained immortality. The TARDIS didn't want him aboard, and the Doctor tried to avoid him (even trying to dash away before Jack could grab on at the end of "End of Days" / the beginning of "Utopia".)

I liked the joke about the change in terminology. The Doctor introduced Clara to the professor's "companion". She corrected him with "assistant", and he remarked something like, "Ah, right, it's 1974; 'assistant'." Sarah Jane and Rose had the opposite conversation during their pissing contest in "School Reunion".

There was a bit of a discontinuity issue (not that continuity has ever been sacrosanct in DW) when the final stop along the photo tour was 100 billion years into the future, since that was long after the setting of "End of the World".

HopScotchNSoda:There was a bit of a discontinuity issue (not that continuity has ever been sacrosanct in DW) when the final stop along the photo tour was 100 billion years into the future, since that was long after the setting of "End of the World".

Enh, for big scifi (and the Doctor) I always attribute those errors to there not being any absolute time measure. When the Doctor mentions years and billions or years, when does he mean? And for what planet? Orbits are always slowly changing in size, getting bigger or smaller. So the length of years changes as a function of time.

So when he says 'X billion years', the way I handle it is that he's using a different temporal frame of reference by accident without thinking and as such the years do not line up neatly like we would think from our exceedingly small and fixed perspective

Wait... really? "The IT Crowd" starring Joel McHale? Uhhhh... wow, I'm so glad I don't live in a parallel universe where that abomination came to be.

NBC shot a pilot that they didn't pick up. It's out there in the vapors of the internet if you look. But be forewarned: It's a shot-for-shot remake of the first episode of the original series. It's fine if you've never seen the UK episode and really creepy if you have.